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Easy transcription with Dragon

Mobile employees - or anyone on-the-go - can turn notes captured with a digital voice recorder, voice memos from a smartphone and other voice files into text with Dragon’s quick and easy transcription feature.

Capture your thoughts anytime, anywhere

Dragon goes where you go. The best and brightest ideas are often lost when they’re not quickly captured in writing. Using a digital voice recorder and Dragon, you can capture it all - even on-the-go.

Speak your notes, memos and more. Capture voice memos on your smartphone. Transform podcasts or the voice of a single speaker into written words. Dragon works the way you work.

Easily transform your voice files into text.Transfer your single speaker recorded audio files to your PC or Mac to generate a written transcript using Dragon speech recognition. It's as easy as record, transfer and transcribe.

Transcribing with Dragon

It’s easy to transcribe your own recorded speech into text using Dragon speech recognition. Simply establish a user profile for a digital voice recorder or the free Dragon Recorder app. Speak your notes or record your memos, and have Dragon transcribe your recorded voice quickly and easily when you connect back to your PC or Mac.

Dragon is not designed for use with multiple speakers or to transcribe lectures. The software does support the voice writing transcription technique, where the transcriptionist repeats or "parrots" audio from other speakers.

Using “voice writing” or “parroting” for lecture and interview transcription

Since Dragon NaturallySpeaking will only recognize the voice of the trained speaker – namely, you, it is not designed for use with multiple speakers. Thousands of Dragon customers still successfully use the software to transcribe interviews or lectures using a basic technique called "voice writing" or "parroting."

With the introduction of Dragon Dictate for Mac version 4, Mac users can transcribe an audio ﬁle of any single speaker’s voice so it can be used in an interview setting of one single speaker. For lectures the “voice writing” or parroting” technique is still required.

Record a lecture using a digital recorder or mobile device and download the electronic recording to your PC or Mac.

Listen to the recording through the headphones of your Dragon headset and activate your Dragon microphone and repeat the recorded text as you hear it.

Speaking the text aloud in your own voice enables Dragon to accurately transcribe the audio using the Dragon profile tuned to your voice.

Dragon turns your voice into text as quickly as you can speak the words – so there’s no need to constantly rewind the audio while you try to type out the corresponding text.

Transcription solutions for business

Thousands of businesses use Dragon speech recognition as a transcription solution for single voice recordings to reduce transcription costs and increase productivity.

Using Dragon Professional Edition and Dragon Legal Edition transcription capabilities, business users no longer need to transcribe from scratch and can turn recorded audio files into a transcribed document instantly.

Streamline transcription. Dragon’s Auto-Transcribe Folder Agent (ATFA) manages the flow of transcribed text and synchronized audio of digital voice recordings to streamline third-party review and correction. Just drag and drop any recorded audio files into the ATFA and they’ll be automatically transcribed into text.

Gain efficiencies. Support staff can now review a typed draft of a transcribed document versus typing the whole document from scratch, for fast and efficient document turnaround.

Increase productivity. Capture memos and notes away from your desk or while out in the field for later transcription. Dragon works the way you want to work.